McDonald's Delivers Via New York City Subway

Reader Christopher snapped this photo of some McDonald’s employees making a delivery, via the New York City subway. Christopher is worried that the boxes contained what they say they contained—raw eggs and chicken fillet.

We hope that someone just ordered a ton of McDonald’s food for their office, because the idea that McDonald’s thinks the subway is as good as a refrigerated truck is a little too hard to believe. In any case, that’s a lot of McDonald’s.

You can see the employee holding on to two carry-out bags and one can only guess that the person on the left in blue and the person to the right out of the shot are also employees. This would lead me to believe they are delivering a large order to an office.

What swalve said. Eggs and poultry can be left at room temperature for short periods without danger. I guess Christopher has never been out of the country as we are one of the few countries to obsessively refrigerate such things as butter, cheese, and even bread of all things.

They’re clearly open boxes being reused for delivery. All of the original contents inside the boxes would have been in extra packaging (bags, cartons, etc), so the boxes are safe to re-use. McD’s delivers in New York; I’m guessing big office or church delivery.

Would you rather McD’s threw all the boxes away and used other boxes for food deliveries?

Why didn’t the photo-taker just ask what the situation was? End speculation. And even if those are eggs, they won’t self-destruct if left outside a fridge for an hour or two. This just might be the silliest story I’ve seen posted on here so far.

Let’s take a cell-phone photo that doesn’t show much of anything so we can come up with something that looks like it might conceivably maybe hint at a perhaps possibly being an issue and get our 15-seconds of fame online.

I think some ppl are missing the bigger possible problem. I certainly wouldn’t want my food delivered in a box that had previously contained raw meats or eggs. I don’t care if said raw meat/eggs were in another package. Its not a healthy way to store food.

I think that Hoosier45678 has it right. My roommate was a manager at a McD’s and we often would fill up her car with boxes and go out and get or deliever product when needed by another store. Even driving between Kansas City and Topeka. So I wouldn’t be suprised if in NYC they used the subway. McD’s doesn’t supply cars and if you are trying to make up your mistake on your order your are own your own. Also my last couple moves have been entirely with McD’s boxes, they are the perfect size for college girls on the move.

I was under the impression The Consumerist was edited in Manhattan; you do realize that in Manhattan, the subway is probably the safest, and most certainly the quickest, way to transport anything in Manhattan.

I’m a little surprised that you can get that much stuff through the subway. I mean, the guy has an actual trolley with him. Isn’t there someone in the subway station making sure people don’t come in with stuff? How did he even manage to get through the tiny gates with it ?